OT, FOAK aviation stuff ...

Whippersnapper. 3½d a packet and they had a little blue bag that always
got soggy.

 

Pah.
Ginged by an old ****.

Things were cheaper north of the border.

 

Bah! Kids. 3d a packet, when I were a lad, not that we could afford them,
living in a shoe box like we did.

 

Our Brazilian UNIX expert had a colleague fire up vi to look at
/etc/fstab or somesuch on her machine yesterday. When he'd seen what he
wanted I remarked, "Now we'll see if she knows how to get out of vi!"
But she cheated -- closed the window instead...

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

In SLRN only the first one shows up as underlined..

Phil

 

I suspect most of us are not old enough

Phil

 

How is techy geekness worse than bike geekness?

Phil

 

$1,s/abc/xyz/g

oh and any takers for ICL VME?

 

You tend to get more fresh air and sunlight with bike geekness.

 

That's mature, dear; like fine wine, I improve with age.

Ali

 

Or turn to vinegar..

Phil.

 

Nah, I've always had a sour wit!

Ali

 

Better than a shining one..

Phil

 

Oi. Wot about us halfs?

 

Shite, they've let the workforce go. That's that then :-(


***
It is with great regret that the Trustees of Vulcan to the Sky have been
obliged to issue letters of termination of contract to the workforce at
Bruntingthorpe and Wimborne.

Despite unremitting and continuing efforts to find a major benefactor or
sponsor for the project, none has yet been identified. Escalating costs
mean that a million pounds are still needed before the end of August if
the aircraft is to be returned to flight next year.

Everything is still being done to find such a company or person but time
is getting very short. To be unable to complete the project after so
much has been given and so much achieved is little short of a tragedy;
but, as has been said before, the combination of time lag, engineering
cost uplift and no sponsor has so far rendered the task insurmountable.

£1M needs to be found NOW if we're to meet the target of flying for the
Falklands Commemoration and the 2007 Air Display season.
***

 

Some cracking pics there, thanks for that...

 

Scraggy came up with the following;:

Been there ...

But not there, thanks. That's a very interesting site and some great links,
much appreciated.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon came up with the following;:

That's what I thought. Close up it looks a bit rougher than the pictures
shoe, some of the air intakes and 'holes' have rubbish and stuff pushed in
them but overall a damn impressive Gate-Keeper.

 

A.Lee came up with the following;:

Cheers.

We used to live 'across the fields' from Finningley airfield and can still
remember the roar and shaking ground when sticks of Vulcans took off ....

 

Seems to have been rescued at the last minute according to BBC News just
now - result!